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• Aisle Nine

  Cho, Ian X.,

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  Portals to hell popped up one day all around the world, including in Aisle Nine of the Here For You Mart where Jasper works. Demons escape the portals while folks shop til they drop (possibly literally). The Vanguard Corporation has graciously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ariel Crashes a Train

  Cole, Olivia A.,

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  Ariel has always felt too much: too tall, too strong, too queer, too rough. At least her parents certainly think so. And as the rituals she uses to keep everyone around her safe get longer and more elaborate, she's worried that she's too violent as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Breakup Lists

  Khorram, Adib,

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  Jackson plays the part of stage manager of his high school’s theater program very well, but when his crush Liam joins the cast of the fall musical, he finds himself thrust into the spotlight. He’s never felt so strongly about anyone, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brightness Between Us

  Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-

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  In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, Seventeen years have gone by since Ambrose and Kodiak crashed onto a distant exoplanet. Now the parents of two teenagers, they learn the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. And also,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Compound Fracture

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  After surviving a horrific attack, sixteen-year-old Miles accidentally gets wrapped up in a violent revenge plot. When a chance encounter reunites him with a childhood friend, Miles starts plotting with fellow community members to finally take down…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Daughter of the Bone Forest

  Skye, Jasmine,

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  Rosy never wanted to attend the prestigious academy for witches and familiars (who can take on animal forms), but when her ability as a bone familiar is discovered, she has no choice. All she can do now to avoid being forced onto a battlefield is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death at Morning House

  Johnson, Maureen, 1973-

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  When Marlowe ends up with a job giving tours of a 1920’s house on a tiny island in New England for the summer, she doesn’t expect to also have to solve a murder. Or two. In addition to uncovering the horrific truth about the family that used to live…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death's Country

  Romero, R. M. (Rachael Maria), 1987-

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  Andres, Renee, and Liora were an inseparable, happy triad until Liora was in a car accident. With their girlfriend in a coma and her soul on the line there’s only one thing to be done: go to the underworld and bring her back. The city of the dead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Let the Forest in

  Drews, C. G.,

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  Andrew, his twin Dove, and Thomas have been inseparable since they began their time at Wickwood Academy. However, the beginning of a new school year brings a new dynamic - Dove is not speaking to Thomas, and barely has time for Andrew. Thomas is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Family of Killers

  Moore, Bryce,

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  Warren Bullock, a teenage boy living in 1870s Kansas, who has begun suffering from intrusive thoughts of violently killing people around him. When his lawman father investigates the disappearance of one of their neighbors and doesn't return, Warren…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Icarus

  Ancrum, K.,

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  Icarus is an art thief who only steals from one man, Mr. Black, at the direction of his emotionally distant and grief-ridden father. Icarus gets caught by Helios, the mistreated son of Mr. Black, and they begin a tenuous friendship that blossoms…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invocations

  Sutherland, Krystal,

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  Someone is murdering the women that Emer has given Invocations: curses that allow girls to claim power at the cost of part of their soul. Jude and Zara are both seeking Emer's help for their own reasons: Jude to find a cure for a horrible curse gone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Yoyo has always been the perfect daughter, the perfect Rabbi's Daughter, until the day her best friend crossed the line and is sent away. Yoyo feels adrift without her anchor. Enter Mickey, also a daughter of a rabbi, but she might as well be from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindling

  Chee, Traci,

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  Now that the war is over, traumatized Kindling—magic-wielding former child soldiers—are left to wander the countryside making a living however they can. When a celebrated war hero agrees to protect an impoverished village from marauders, she gathers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Libertad

  Zaldívar, Bessie Flores, 1997-

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  A story set during the Honduran election of 2017, that feels eerily similar to political turmoil today. Libi is coming to terms with coming out, writing her political poetry freely amongst an oppressive government and figuring out the situationship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  When four teens discover the strangled body of Samantha White Tail, they suddenly find that they are suspects in her murder. Each of them is connected to Samantha in a different way, and each of them had a reason for wanting her gone, but now they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Like Other Girls

  Adamo, Meredith,

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  Jo-Lynn Kirby has really been through it, and like most young girls she's been blamed for the awful things boys and grown men have done to her. It's just what happens to "girls like her". But when pretty, nice Maddie Price goes missing, something…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pick the Lock

  King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-

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  When Jane’s mother is not away on tour, earning a living to support her family, she is confined to a system of pneumatic tubes installed by Jane’s controlling and manipulative father. But when Jane makes new friends against all odds, she sets out to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shut Up, This Is Serious

  Ixta, Carolina,

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  This beautiful story packs an emotional punch. It is many things: a love letter and an angry rant and a sobbing confession for complicated but so life-giving high school girl friendships, in this case between Belen and her bestie Leti. It's also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snowglobe

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  Pak, So-yŏng, 1989-

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  Hundreds of years in the future, most of society lives in a frozen hellscape, except for a select few who live in Snowglobe, a paradise where reality tv is created. When Jeon Chobahm is offered the chance of a lifetime to join one of her favorite…Read moreRead more of this annotation